Category Archives: Books
Posted by Darby on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 12:51 am.
I’ve read almost as many books in the first two months of 2012 as I did in all of 2011. That statement? Not literally true. Give me another two months. Then the numbers will add up. Granted, I don’t think I’ve picked up a single book with more than 300 pages in it since I [...]
Posted by Darby on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 at 11:19 pm.
I Am In Here from Darby Dixon III on Vimeo. Kinetic type interpretation of the opening paragraphs of the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. For the tech interested: all the stop-motion marker-y and cut-out-y stuff was shot using Dragonframe; that footage was combined, sliced, and diced with the rest of the type in [...]
Posted by Darby on Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 12:26 am.
Then beneath the colour there was the shape. She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed. It was in that moment’s flight between the picture and her canvas that the demons set on her who often brought [...]
Posted by Darby on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 12:42 am.
It’s been a weird year, you guys. From the long novel project to the sort of semi-ish still in process pop-novel project, which I don’t think I’ve gotten around to saying anything about anywhere, to the absurd PDF blog post, an effort that sort of cemented a lot of my thoughts and feelings about how [...]
Posted by Darby on Saturday, October 8th, 2011 at 1:40 pm.
Well, new, last month, new, but, still, I really liked the books, so: I reviewed The American Girl and The Glitter Scene by Monika Fagerholm over at The Collagist. I’ll skip the teaser quote; let’s just say I profess my love for the books within the first paragraph. Read, read, read.
Posted by Darby on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 8:42 pm.
First off: Maine? Bar Harbor? Acadia National Park? Love you guys. Love you. You’re beautiful. Next time, don’t let me leave. I mean it. Second off: as I mentioned somewhere in the depths of my previous post—I assume; I mean, I said, like, everything else in there, right?—I’ve been in the graphic design program at [...]
Posted by Darby on Saturday, August 27th, 2011 at 1:08 am.
Editor’s note: this post got away from us, slightly, and, therefore, is presented in two versions. The body text of the blog post is provided below. The (hopefully far more fun) version is available as a downloadable (and more or less printable PDF, at least, printable, if you skip the cover page, though, to be [...]
Posted by Darby on Saturday, August 6th, 2011 at 8:33 pm.
Okay, so, okay: more stuff coming, but, and I’m way late on this, but: I took part semi-recently in a super cool round-table discussion of Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta, which is a pretty good book, and I think the conversation was pretty good, too, despite my being in it. It’s over at Reluctant Habits. [...]
Posted by Darby on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 7:44 pm.
…our hero realizes (recognizes?) as he reads through the readable, though highly disorienting, second chapter. As Matthew Cheney put it, some time ago: I enjoyed much of The Recognitions on that first reading, but also knew that I was missing a lot, perhaps even 80% of what the book was up to. For one reason or [...]
Posted by Darby on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 6:17 pm.
“Something to keep in mind when you start reading, Gaddis considered this [The Recognitions] a comic novel. Don’t forget to laugh amidst all that erudition and fancy language.” – link Which: yes. Standard disclaimers and apologies aside about infrequent posting, etc etc etc, yadda yadda yadda, full time job, school, recent discovery that I’ve likely [...]